Since you are interested in Ravel: Complete music for violin and piano, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY/ MAURICE RAVEL / GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy/Ravel/Faure: Piano trios The Florestan Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Dec/2003 ] 'The Florestans, exhibiting their trademark finesse, taste and sensitivity, fully demonstrate why they are one of the most highly prized of new ensembles' (The Scotsman) |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Songs [incls 'Chants populaires' & 'Cinq melodies populaires grecques'] Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] "Top-notch sound and informed, easily readable liner notes complete an irresistible, essential package for all vocal music fans. Bravo" (10 / 10 ClassicsToday) |
SOLER / GRANADOS / ALBENIZ / RAVEL / DEBUSSY / etc
Stephen Hough's Spanish Album Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Nov/2006 ] 'Hough has a more intimate stance than many pianists. It's a superb and surprising recital' (BBC Music Disc of the Month December 2006) |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete Solo Piano music [2 CDs] Steven Osborne, piano [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "[Gaspard] is technically immaculate...and gently seductive before turning on a more sinister pressure...Osborne spins his dancers towards a visceral and devastating oblivion." (Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 - Instrumental) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY/ MAURICE RAVEL / GABRIEL FAURE
Debussy, Ravel, Faure: Piano trios The Florestan Trio [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] 'The Florestans, exhibiting their trademark finesse, taste and sensitivity, fully demonstrate why they are one of the most highly prized of new ensembles' (The Scotsman) |
RAVEL
Complete Solo Piano Music Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/May/2002 ] "French music is clearly close to her heart as this magnificent survey of Ravel's music for solo piano reveals. Her wonderfully judged performances merely serve to heighten admiration for a composer of quite remarkable facility and imagination. A... |
RAVEL / DEBUSSY
String Quartets Dante Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] "...the way melodies seem to emerge subtly from the texture before retreating back into it [in the Debussy] is most appealing...The Ravel Quartet, too, is unfailingly musical." Gramophone Magazine, June 2010 |
Laurence Perkins, bassoon, New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp
The Playful Pachyderm (Includes 'Funeral March of a Marionette' (Gounod) & Romance (Elgar) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Jan/2005 ] 'Perkins is a compelling advocate of the instrument, not only in his painstaking work as orchestrator and arranger, and his enthusiastic and well-researched booklet notes, but most of all in his playing … This is a delightful disc which will be of... |